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'Collingham' is a village 3 km (2 miles) south east of Wetherby in West Yorkshire. It is in the Leeds metropolitan district. The clergyman, the Reverend William Mompesson was born there in 1639 ^[1]
The River Wharfe runs through the village towards Wetherby as does the main A58 trans-pennine road. The A659 also passes through the village.
The village has two pubs, the ''Old Star Inn''[1] and the ''Half Moon Inn''[2], where Oliver Cromwell is said to have spent the night after the Battle of Marston Moor^[2]. There is also a Post Office, a variety of shops and service businesses, a sports centre and a primary school. The village church is ''St Oswald''.^[3]
The village school, Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Primary School, is located off the Harewood Road opposite the cricket pitch.
The Wetherby golf course also extends all the way to the river at Collingham.
The village ajoins the neighbouring village of Linton and the neighbouring town of Wetherby. Between the three places, the only break in buildings is the crossing over the River Wharfe. Between Collingham and Leeds, the A58 is mainly built up by the villages of Bardsey and Scarcroft and the hamlet of Bardsey Cum Righton. Occasionally, inbetween the close villages is a small amount of open green land.
Collingham is also home to Collingham And Linton Cricket Club.^[4]

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The village has two pubs, The Half Moon on Harewood Road and The Old Star on Leeds Road. The former public house The Barleycorn on Main Street has since been converted into an Italian Restaurant.
Set within a small modern shopping precinct 'Elizabeth Court' are most of the villages shops. There is an off licence, a fish and chip shop, a travel agency, a pharmacy, a clothes shop, a bathroom shop and a dentist. Set adjacent to this there is a further small parade of shops containing a convenience store and a newsagent and Post Office.

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1. Genealogical web site
2. Marston Moor
3. Village Church
4. Cricket Club